My only additional comment, which I somewhat stated but not plainly, is that the cop, if he was any sort of competent driver at all, could have seen that I was going slower than he wanted to go, put his blue lights on while he was (say) 100 feet behind me, crossed over into the oncoming lane, and be done with it.

The tailgating before doing this is what I didn't like, and what makes me question his motives.

While I realize that some may want to whine, piss and moan about the "cop bashing", none of those same people ever seem to want to acknowledge the fact that cops are and should be held to a higher standard by the general public.

And the "if you don't know how to do their job you have no right to criticize it" argument is also horsedung.

By that argument all of you Clinton/Bush/etc. bashers all ought to shut the hell up since you're not Presidential material.

Brian